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VW's Xpeng SUV Sells Just 7% of Its Original Monthly Target

VW's Xpeng-developed ID. UNYX 08 averaged 267 China sales a month from April to August, about 7% of the 3,622 planned, Reuters reports.

Damien KestelooOct 204 min read

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Xpeng Outgrows Magna's Austria Plant As 'Made In Europe' Rules Loom

Xpeng says Magna's Graz plant can't keep up and plans a lower-cost second European line ahead of EU 'Made in Europe' rules that also count battery cells.

Haye KestelooOct 13

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Chased A Flying Car In China For Five Years And Left Its Project Lead Facing A Criminal Case

Reuters obtained hundreds of pages on Volkswagen's failed V.MO flying car. The program died in June 2024, and the Chinese manager VW promoted as the face of its innovation is now the named suspect in a Shanghai trade-secrets investigation.

Haye KestelooAug 1

BYD

BYD Retakes The Global EV Crown From Tesla With Quarterly Sales That Shrank 8%

BYD sold 557,090 fully electric vehicles in the second quarter, enough to take back the global BEV crown from Tesla a full day before Tesla reports its own numbers. Here is the part most coverage will skip: that winning figure is 8.22% lower than what BYD sold in the same quarter last year. Tesla publishes…

Haye KestelooJul 1

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Weighs 100,000 Job Cuts And Four Plant Closures As Its EV Bet Comes Due

Volkswagen is considering cutting as many as 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, June 26, in what would be the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history. The plants on the list are Volkswagen‘s sites in Hanover, Zwickau and Emden, plus Audi‘s factory in…

Haye KestelooJun 26

BYD Recalls Nearly 97,000 EVs Over Potential Fire Risk

BYD

BYD Pays for Crashes Its Driver-Assist Causes, the Bill Tesla Still Hands to Owners

BYD will cover every dollar of an at-fault crash when its urban driver-assist system is steering, with no cap on the payout. The Chinese automaker pledged that guarantee on May 28 at its Intelligence Strategy Launch Event in Shenzhen, the same showcase where it revealed the XUANJI A3, which it calls China’s first homegrown 4-nanometer…

Haye KestelooJun 15

South Carolina

Geely Already Builds Cars In South Carolina, And The Chinese EV Ban Has A Factory-Sized Hole

Chinese electric vehicles are closer to American driveways than the 125% cumulative tariff wall suggests, and the question driving industry analysis this week is no longer whether they arrive but through which door. One door already exists: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group owns the Volvo plant near Charleston, South Carolina, where Volvo and Polestar models roll…

Haye KestelooJun 9

Tesla

Tesla FSD Supervised Moves Toward EU-Wide Approval as RDW Files With the European Commission

Three days after the RDW (Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer, the Dutch vehicle authority) issued its formal type approval for Tesla FSD Supervised on April 10, 2026, the next step is already in motion. The RDW has notified the European Commission of its plan to seek EU-wide recognition for Tesla FSD Supervised, according to an RDW…

Haye KestelooApr 13

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